{"id":4383,"date":"2006-02-16T16:48:18","date_gmt":"2006-02-16T20:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/formerlyknownas\/2006\/02\/16\/haiku-wars-and-dangers\/"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:54:09","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:54:09","slug":"haiku-wars-and-dangers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2006\/02\/16\/haiku-wars-and-dangers\/","title":{"rendered":"haiku wars (and dangers)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Taking advantage of his “Katrina sabbatical” from teaching at Xavier U. <\/span><\/div>\n
of New Orleans, <\/span>David G. Lanoue<\/span><\/a>, famed translator of <\/span>Kobayashi Issa<\/span><\/a>, and <\/span><\/div>\n
author of <\/span>Haiku Guy<\/em><\/span><\/a>, has just completed a new haiku novel, Haiku Wars<\/a><\/em>. <\/span><\/div>\n
It’s a humorous look at\u00a0the politics and rivalries in the world haiku community <\/span><\/div>\n
(which are surely a lot lke the politics and rivalries in most literary and prof-<\/span><\/div>\n
essional organizations and movements).<\/span><\/div>\n
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\"\"<\/a> Lanoue says:<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Haiku Wars is a light-hearted romp through the world of haiku <\/span><\/em><\/div>\n
written by someone (me!) who knows the subject, the players, <\/span><\/em><\/div>\n
and even where some of the skeletons lie buried. But the tone <\/span><\/em><\/div>\n
is never mean, I hope. This novel is my love letter to haiku people <\/span><\/em><\/div>\n
everywhere, even those I may seem to be making fun of (but again,<\/span><\/em><\/div>\n
any resemblance to real persons is purely coincidental)”.<\/span><\/em><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
It received a glowing <\/span>review by Robert Wilson<\/span><\/a>, editor of Simply Haiku, <\/em>in <\/span><\/div>\n
the brand new edition of that online journal (Vol. 4:1, Spring 2006). Wilson<\/span><\/div>\n
explains the storyline:<\/span><\/div>\n
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“An American professor in Louisiana with the help of a reincarnated <\/span><\/div>\n
bodhisatva dwelling in the body of a pet ferret, put together a haiku <\/span><\/div>\n
conference for the National Haiku Society. The haiku leaders that <\/span><\/div>\n
assemble resemble, in many ways, luminaries who populate similar <\/span><\/div>\n
conferences in real life.”<\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Wilson opines: “The book is a hoot to read and nearly impossible to put down. <\/span><\/div>\n
It’s interspersed with haiku and senryu, some written by Issa, and others penned <\/span><\/div>\n
by Lanoue. The storyline is nicely developed, the dialogue second to none, and I <\/span><\/div>\n
was kept guessing throughout my reading of the book as to who is who or if there <\/span><\/div>\n
is a who.”<\/span><\/div>\n
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<\/span>Haiku Guy<\/em><\/span><\/a> <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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Here are two poems by David Lanoue,\u00a0from Haiku Wars<\/em>:<\/span><\/div>\n
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war monument
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silent night, holy night
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\"Laughing <\/span><\/div>\n
Laughing Buddha<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/div>\n
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Readers of this website know that I’m a big fan of David Lanoue’s prior haiku <\/span><\/div>\n
novels: <\/span>Haiku Guy<\/span><\/em><\/a> (2000; our <\/span>mini-review<\/span><\/a>) and <\/span>Laughing Buddha<\/span><\/em><\/a> (2004) [both <\/span><\/div>\n
from <\/span>Red Moon<\/span><\/a> Press];and <\/span>Dewdrop World<\/span><\/em><\/a> (online <\/span>for free<\/span><\/a>, 2005), which I feel <\/span><\/div>\n
have universal appeal.\u00a0 Haiku Wars<\/em> may be\u00a0a little more “inside the haijin com-<\/span><\/div>\n
munity,” but I’m betting it’s well worth the $15 price for the special, initial 100-<\/span><\/div>\n
copy\u00a0run\u00a0(which includes shipping and an inscribed author’s signature). <\/span>Click here<\/span><\/a> <\/span><\/div>\n
for details. <\/span><\/div>\n
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Learning about the genre’s wars, gave a whole new meaning to a <\/span>link on my\u00a0Referer\/\u00a0 \"hazardsS\"<\/span><\/div>\n
Keywords statistics page this morning.\u00a0 Someone Googled <\/span>dangers of haiku<\/em><\/span><\/a>>. <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n


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The first result was to a travel page\u00a0about the Hawaiian island <\/span>of Haiku (no dangers <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n


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listed).\u00a0 The next result, out of 92,300, was to Jim Kacian’s <\/span>Haiku How-to Primer<\/span><\/a>, here <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n


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at f\/k\/a<\/em>, where Jim discusses “the greatest dangers to <\/span>writing good haiku.”<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n


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Other results refer to:<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n


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\"tiny “the dangers of further tightening haiku’s already tight form ” (<\/span>here<\/span><\/a>)<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n


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\"tiny “the dangers of “-ing” in haiku” (<\/span>here<\/span><\/a>) and <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n


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\"tiny “One of the dangers with haiku is, as Shiki pointed out in his time
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and the limited allowed vocabulary, that no one will be able to write <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n


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a truly ‘new’ haiku.” (<\/span>here<\/span><\/a>)<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n


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I don’t know what the Google querist had in mind.\u00a0 After reading about Haiku <\/em><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n


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Wars<\/em>, however, I’m starting to worry that intellectual and egoistical\u00a0battles <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n


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over the philosophy and politics of haiku might indeed be dangerous to the <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n


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health and welfare of conference goers.\u00a0 (<\/span>and see<\/span><\/a> possible danger for <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n


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plagiarists and their enablers)\u00a0 Let’s hope cooler heads and hearts will <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n


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prevail, even while we nurture our passion for haiku and within haiku.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n


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“tinyredcheck”\u00a0 Like the many contributors to the new ukku spring haiku<\/em><\/span><\/a> <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n


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weblog, I’m confident that David Lanoue is feeling the first <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n


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stirrings of Spring and spring fever, now that he is back <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n


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in New Orleans.\u00a0\u00a0 Here are a few poems with that feel:<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n


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this butterfly <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n


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has places to go <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n


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spring journey<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n


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busy little buggers <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n


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the flower-mad <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n


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butterflies<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n


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\"butterflyN\"<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n


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it’s good <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n


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to be a horse<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n


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the sweet mountain meadow<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n


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growing north, east<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n


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then south<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n


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mountain pine<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n


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in full battle make-up <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n


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she rollerblades <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n


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by <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n


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David G. Lanoue<\/span><\/strong><\/a> <\/span><\/div>\n


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from Dewdrop World<\/em><\/a> (2005) (online for free<\/span><\/a>) <\/span><\/div>\n


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<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n


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potluck<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n


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\"tiny Intellectual property lawyer and lecturer <\/span>Paul Rapp<\/span><\/a> (of Albany, NY\u00a0\u00a0 \"sleuthSm\"<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n


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and Housatonic, Mass.) writes a column for the NY Capital Region’s<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n


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“alternative newspaper weekly,” Metroland<\/em>.\u00a0 This week’s column <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n


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“<\/span>You’ll Never Walk Alone<\/span><\/a>,” (Feb. 16, 2006) describes how the com-<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n


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bination of data collection and trading by websites and companies <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n


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online and “unrstrained governmental snooping,” leaves us with <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n


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“Orwell on steriods.” <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n


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“Sort of like a virtual Nixon\/J. Edgar Hoover tag-team<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n


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assault on your most fundamental civil liberties.”<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n


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Paul notes that “the world has changed so quickly that these incredible<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n


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events flew by while we weren’t looking.”\u00a0 He ends: “Maybe it’s time to <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n


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start paying attention.”\u00a0\u00a0 He’s right, of course.\u00a0 Most of us weblog denizens <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n


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know all this stuff, but perhaps we take the invasion of privacy a bit to <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n


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much for granted.\u00a0 We need to start letting our desire for privacy known to <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n


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our legislators — loud and clear.\u00a0 And, we need to make sure that our less-<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n


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computer oriented <\/span>and tech-savvy friends, clients, and acquaintances are <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n


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alerted to these problems and provoked into action.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n


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\"erasingS\"<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n


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\"tiny Jonathan at <\/span>plagiarism today<\/span><\/em><\/a> takes a long look today at Fair Use <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n


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and short works (like haiku or weblog blurbs).\u00a0 An avid crusader for the rights <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n


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of copyright holders, Jonathan nonetheless concludes (and\u00a0I hope <\/span>this is Fair <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n


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Use of his\u00a0essay):<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n


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“Truth be told, there\u2019s nothing wrong with fair use. If done <\/span>right, <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n


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it benefits society and detracts very little, if any, from the copy-<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n


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right holder. In fact, it can even promote the original creator.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n


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“Still, those who are uncomfortable with others reusing their work <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n


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need to take notice. Fair use applies to short works as well as long <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n


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ones.\u00a0 . . .<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n


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“For those wanting to reuse another\u2019s work, just bear in mind that <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n


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context is king and that, so long as you take only what is necessary, <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n


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taking all of a shorter piece can be just as protected as taking only <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n


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a portion of a long one.”<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n


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Your input on his conclusions (based is large part on <\/span>my own<\/span><\/a>) would be much <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n


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appreciated. <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n


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“lanoueSelf”<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n


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<\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n


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Taking advantage of his “Katrina sabbatical” from teaching at Xavier U. of New Orleans, David G. Lanoue, famed translator of Kobayashi Issa, and author of Haiku Guy, has just completed a new haiku novel, Haiku Wars. It’s a humorous look at\u00a0the politics and rivalries in the world haiku community (which are surely a lot lke […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2926],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pre-06-2006"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6kP1R-18H","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4383"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12775,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4383\/revisions\/12775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}